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The Reith Lectures: Edgar Wind - Art and Anarchy: The Fear of Knowledge

The Fear of Knowledge

04/12/1960

Edgar Wind - Art and Anarchy

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Edgar Wind explores how knowledge allows our aesthetic perception of art to be heightened.

Edgar Wind explores how understanding allows our aesthetic perception of art to be heightened in his fourth lecture entitled 'The Fear of Knowledge'. 

This year's lecturer is the first and current Professor of Art History at Oxford University, Edgar Wind. The German-born British professor specialises in iconology in the Renaissance era. In his Reith Series entitled 'Art and Anarchy', Edgar Wind explores the concepts of creative energies produced through turmoil.

In this lecture entitled 'The Fear of Knowledge', Edgar Wind challenges the idea that intellect hurts the artistic imagination. This prejudice, which artists themselves have rarely shared, does not allow for the aesthetic perception of art to be heightened. He argues that art and intellect should not be separated into one or the other, because together they have created some of the greatest works of art. 

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Art historian Edgar Wind explores the effect of turmoil on creativity.

Edgar Wind, the first Professor of Art History at Oxford University, examines why and how great art is often produced in turbulent circumstances.

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